Improvement in harness-saddle pads



UNITED STATES HENRY LEREW, OF PANORA, IOWA.

IMPROVEMENT IN HARNESS-SADDLE PADS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 139,403, dated May 27,1873; application led March 1, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY LEREW, of Panora, in the county of Guthrie andState of Iowa, have invented a new and valuable Improvement inHarnessPad; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear,and exact description of the construction and operation of the same,reference being had to the annexed drawing, making a part of thisspecification, and tothe letters and gures of reference marked thereon.

. Figure 1 of the drawing is a representation of a top view of myinvention. Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the same. Fig. 3 is a view ofthe facing, removed.

This invention relates to certain improvements in saddle and harnesspads; and it consists in a zinc facing for the bearing-surface,rendering the padvv more durable than when faced with leather, and morecomfortable for the an-imal wearin g it.

In the drawing, A represents the facing, which is made of zinc onaccount of its noncorrosive and non-conducting properties. It is formedby cutting a piece of metal to cor respond with the form and size of thepad, making it concavo-convex in form, with a flange, a, turned uparound its edge, as shown in Fig. 3. The leather portion of the pad ismade in the ordinary Way, and the facing is secured to it by clampingdown the flange a on the outer side of the leather portion, so that theconvex'portion of the zinc facing will come next to the animal. The padis attached to the harness in the usual way. The leather A harness orsaddle pad consisting of the w usual leathers, made convex in the centerand trimmed down to a thin edge, faced with a zinc pad-plate, madeconcave to receive said leathers, and attached by having its edge turnedover their edges, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my namein the presence of two witnesses.

HENRY LEREW. Witnesses: p

G. H. ZINN, JOSEPH GARLOW.

